Wandering star disrupts stellar nursery
Event provides new evidence that traveling stars can form binary systems From a zoomed out, distant view, star-forming cloud L483 appears normal. But when...
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May 15 Lunar Eclipse Public Viewing
Northwestern students and Evanston residents gathered atop the South Campus Parking Garage Sunday May 15th, 2022 to view the total lunar eclipse of the...
Alex Gurvich Wins Northwestern’s Data Visualization Contest
Astronomy PhD student Alex Gurvich was recently named a winner of Northwestern’s 2022 Data Visualization contest. Honored for his video simulation of a galaxy...
CIERA Researchers Quoted in Sky & Telescope June Cover Story
CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera, Einstein Fellow Maya Fishbach, and Board of Visitors Research Assistant Professor Zoheyr Doctor have been featured in Sky & Telescope’s...
CIERA’S Inaugural Astronomy Night Out
On Friday April 22, CIERA held its first Astronomy Night Out event for Northwestern students and local Evanston residents. The event, attended by 65...
Tarraneh Eftekhari Named NASA Einstein Fellow
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Tarraneh Eftekhari has been named a NASA Einstein Fellow! This NASA fellowship enables Eftekhari, along with 23 other postdoctoral scientists out...
Erin Cox Awarded NSF MPS-Ascend Fellowship
CIERA Postdoctoral Associate Erin Cox has been awarded a National Science Foundation Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending (MPS-Ascend ) Postdoctoral Fellowship! The fellowship will provide...
Dying Stars’ Cocoons Might Explain Fast Blue Optical Transients
Ever since they were discovered in 2018, fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) have utterly surprised and completely confounded both observational and theoretical astrophysicists. So...
ALMA Community Day
On April 1, CIERA hosted the ALMA Community Day Event, a workshop designed by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and organized by Tarraneh...
Five New Postdoctoral Researchers Join CIERA
Welcome New Postdoctoral Researchers! We are excited to introduce CIERA’s incoming Postdoctoral Fellows and Associates. They will bring a wide-range of expertise that promises...
CIERA Astronomers Travel to Mexico to Install TolTEC Camera
Last November, the Chicagoland area prepared for a cold winter as CIERA astronomers Dennis Lee, Giles Novak and Marc Berthoud traveled off to warmer...
Monica Gallegos Garcia Selected for 2022 Bouchet Honor Society
CIERA graduate student Monica Gallegos Garcia has been selected as a 2022 Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Inductee, a cohort organized by The...